Tractor-propelled harvester.



. E. W. BURGESS. TRACTOR PROPELLED HARVESTER.

APPLICATION FILED APR.6.1916. nENEwED Nov. 14. 1911.

1,290,017. Patented 11611311918.

E. W. BURGESS.

TRACTOR FROPELLED HARVESTER. APPLICATION FILED APR. e. 191s. RENEwED Nov. 14.1911.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD W. BURGESS, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, AsSIGNoE, BY ivIEsNE ASSIGNMENTS,- ToI INTEENATIONAE HARVESTER COMPANY, A CORPORATION oF NEW JERSEY.

TRACTOR-PROPELLED HARVESTER.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 31, 1918.

Application l'ed April 6, 1916, Serial No. 89,377. Renewed November 14, 1917. Serial No. 202,068.

To all 'whom 'it may concern:

Be it.known that I, EDWARD W. BURGEss, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illi'nois', have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tractor-Propelled Harvesters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

My invention relates to tractor propelled harvesters, and comprises means whereby any of the common forms of ters and binders may be prope ed by a tractor, and means whereby the tongue truck of the harvester is operatively connected with the steering truck of the tractor and controlled thereby in a manner to cause the harvester to turn with and be directed in its path of movement by the tractor; the object of the invention being to provide means whereby one operator may control the movements of a tractor and a plurality of harvesters coupled therewith.

, This object is attained by meansl of the4 mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 shows a top plan view of a tractor having one harvester disposed in a trailing and offset relation therewith and another harvester disposed at the front of the tractor and propelled in offset relation with the trailing harvester and tractor, and Fig. 2 shows the construction illustrated in Fig. 1 in side elevation, certain of the parts of the harvester and tractor being omitted for the sake of clearness.

The tractor includes longitudinally disposed truck frame members 1 and 2, having their front ends secured to a bolster member 3, in which is j ournaled the upper end of a shaft 4, that 1s operatively connected with a steering axle 5, vhaving carrying rain harvesand a lon itudinally disposed shaft 15 journaled in earings 16 carried bythe truck frame,'having its front end connected with the Worm 8 and its rear end provided with a hand wheel 17 whereby the operator may manipulate the steering mechanism as desired. v

The harvesters include atraction wheel 18, grain wheel 19a grain platform 20, cutting apparatus 21, elevator 22., binder mechanism 23, sheaf carrier 24, reel 25, and draft tongue 26. .The front end of the draft tongue of vthe trailing harvester is pivotally connected with the grainward end of the draft bar 13 of the tractor and is drawn forward or .propelled rearward in proper relation therewith as the operator manipulates the steering mechanism thereof. The

` tongue of the harvester disposed in front of sway bar secured to the truck axle and slidably engaging the lower side of the tongue and retained in engagement therewith by means of a clip member 31 secured to the ton e.

he harvester is propelled by means of a longitudinally disposed push member 32, havlng its rear end detachably connected, by means of a pin 33, with the stubbleward end of the draft bar 13 of the tractor, and its middle part', by means of a link 34, with the front end of the truck frame of the tractor. The push member passes under the platform of the harvester and its front end is pivotally connected with the front end of the draft tongue 26. 35 represents a transversely disposed evener pivoted intermediate its end s upon the rear end of the draft tongue and having its stubbleward .end connected, by means of a link 36, with the grainward end of the truck axle 28, and its opposite end, by means of a link 37, with an extension 38 of the steering axle 5 of the tractor. 'The arms of the evener 35 have their respective lengths so proportioned relative to the respectlve lengths of the tongue truck axle 28 and the tractor steering axle 5 that the tongue truck will be turned by its connection with the tractor steering mecha-nism to a proper angle to cause' the harvester to turn freely with the tractor when moved in any direction.

-Having shown and described an embodii ment of my invention, I do not desire that -it be confined strictly to the details of its extending beneath the operative elements.4

2. In combination, a tractor, a harvester having operative elements, a tongue truck secured to said harvester, and means extending beneath the operative elements. on said harvester and connecting said tractor with said tonguetruck.

3. In combination, a tractor, steering means carried thereby, a harvester operatively connected to said tractor and including operative elements and steering mechanism, means connecting the tractor steering means With said harvester steering mecha- .nism and extending beneath the operative elements of said harvester.

4. In combination, a tractor, steering means' carried thereby, a harvester operatively connected to said tractor and including operative elements, a tongue truck carried by said harvester, and means connecting said tractor steering means with said tongue truck and extending beneath the operative elements of said harvester.

5. In combination, a tractor, steering means carried thereby, a harvester operatively connected to said tractor and includ-` ing operative relements and steering mechanism, and means including an evener for connecting the tractor steering means With said harvester steering mechanism.

6. In combination, a tractor, a harvester, having operative elements and a tongue truck, and means connecting the rear end of sai'd tractor with said tongue truck and extending beneath said operative elements on the harvester.

- 7 In combination, a tractor, steering means carried by said tractor, and including an axle and a steering Wheel mounted thereon, a harvester operatively connected to said tractor, steering mechanism carried by said harvester, and means directly connecting the axle 0f the tractor to the steering mechanism of the harvester.

8. In combination, a tractor, steering means carried thereby and including an axle and a steering -Wheel mounted thereon,

i a harvester operatively connected to said tractor, steering mechanism carried by said harvester and including an axle and a steermeans carried thereby and including an axle and steering Wheels mounted thereon, a harvester having a stub tongue, a tongue truck connected to said stub tongue, means connecting the tractor With the stub tongue,

and means directly connecting the axle of the tractor steering means with the tongue truck whereby the harvester may be steered from the tractor.

10. In combination, a tractor, steering means carried thereby and including an axle and a steering wheel mounted thereon, a tractor frame, the harvester having a stub tongue, means connecting the rear end of the said tractor frame with the front end of said stubltongue, a tongue truck carried by said stub tongue, and means directly connecting the axle of the tractor steering means with the harvester tongue truck, whereby the harvester may be steered from the tractor.

11. In combination, a tractor, steering means carried thereby including a Wheeled truck, a harvester operatively connected to said tractor andhaving a stub tongue, a steering Wheel carried by an axle mounted on said stub tongue, an evener carried by said stub tongue, means operatively connecting the Wheeled truck of the ytractorl with said evener, and means operatively connecting said evener with the axle of the har vester steering Wheel.

12. In combination, a tractor, steering' and steering Wheels, and means connecting the tractor steering means directly vvith the harvester steering Wheels.

13. In combination, a tractor including an axle and a steering Wheel carried thereby, a harvester including grain cutting and con.- veying mechanism and steering mechanism, and means connecting the tractor axle directly to the harvester steering mechanism.

14. In combination, a tractor including steering Wheels, a harvester connected to said tractor and including grain cutting and conveying mechanism and steering Wheels, and means directly connecting the steering Wheels of the tractor to the steering Wheels of the harvester.

15. In combination, a tractor including a truck frame, a steering truck supporting the front end 0f said truck frame, traction Wheels supporting the rear end of said truck frame, a harvester disposed in front of said tractor including a grain platform, a traction Wheel, a grain Wheel, a draft tongue,

a tongue truck pivotall connected with the front end of said dra' ton e, a longitudinally disposed push inem er having its front end pivotallyv connected with the front end of said draft tongue and its rear end with said tractor and secured against lateral movement relative to said tractor, and operative connections between said tongue truck and the steering truck of said tractor whereby said harvester is propelled and guided by said tractor.

, 16. In combination, a tractor including a truck frame, a steering truck supporting the '-front "end of said truck frame, traction wheels supportin the rear end of said truck frame, a` draft irame carried by the rear end of said truck frame, a harvester disposed in front of said tractor including a grain platform, a traction wheel, a grain wheel, a draft tongue, va 'tongue truck piv-` said tractor and secured against lateral movement relative to said tractor, and an evener pivoted intermediate its ends upon the rear end of said tongue truck, one end of said evener being operatively connected with said tongue truck axle and its opposite l end with said tractor steering truck whereby said harvester is propelled and steered by said tractor.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my si ature.

EDWARD W. BUR ESS. 

